then as tens of thousands individuals born in the dominican republic, mostly of haitian descent, face expulsion, we speak with haitian-american writer edwidge danticat. haitians of dominican descent can be expelled from the dominican republic. it is something that can potentially become one of the most catastrophic refugee crises in our region. amy: all that and more, coming up. amy: welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. greece s central bank has warned the country is on a painful course toward defaulting on its debts and dropping out of the eurozone. in a statement, the bank urged the greek government and european creditors to reach a deal before greece s current bailout expires at the end of month. the greek government has rejected european demands for further pension cuts. the bank of greece warns a default quote would snowball into an uncontrollable crisis, and bring deep recession, a dramatic decline in income leve
silence just a day after she resigned her post as president of the spokane chapter of the naacp amid reports she falsely portrayed herself as black. she says that is how she identifies. we will host a roundtable discussion. then as tens of thousands individuals born in the dominican republic, mostly of haitian descent, face expulsion, we speak with haitian-american writer edwidge danticat. haitians of dominican descent can be expelled from the dominican republic. it is something that can potentially become one of the most catastrophic refugee crises in our region. amy: all that and more, coming up. amy: welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. greece s central bank has warned the country is on a painful course toward defaulting on its debts and dropping out of the eurozone. in a statement, the bank urged the greek government and european creditors to reach a deal before greece s current bailout expires at the end of month. th
silence just a day after she resigned her post as president of the spokane chapter of the naacp amid reports she falsely portrayed herself as black. she says that is how she identifies. we will host a roundtable discussion. then as tens of thousands individuals born in the dominican republic, mostly of haitian descent, face expulsion, we speak with haitian-american writer edwidge danticat. haitians of dominican descent can be expelled from the dominican republic. it is something that can potentially become one of the most catastrophic refugee crises in our region. amy: all that and more, coming up. amy: welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. greece s central bank has warned the country is on a painful course toward defaulting on its debts and dropping out of the eurozone. in a statement, the bank urged the greek government and european creditors to reach a deal before greece s current bailout expires at the end of month. th
welcome him here [applause]. all night. all day. were going to be fighting for freddie gray. all night, all day, we are going to be fighting for freddie gray. the first of all let me say that it is an honor and pleasure to be back here at red emma s, i was here some months ago to introduce to other new books that i have written and i consider it to be quite an honor that they have a invited me back again. those who may may not be familiar, freddie gray was a young, black man who had a fatal encounter with the police in baltimore. he is in the long list of such young black people have had fatal encounters with the authority, i think of samuel reising kleven, and staten island new york, michael brown in ferguson, sandra bland in texas, hopefully what i m going to be talking about this evening that is to say, these events that stand the period of the onset of the haitian revolution in 1791 until the death of paul robinson in 1976 will shed light, i would hope on why, in north
tonight s event is going to be a double-click event. talking about confronting, but also the revolutionary life of paul robison. his birthday was actually a week ago. this guy, horne is a brilliant scholar, brilliant historian and i want you to give a round of applause and welcome him here. [applause] all night, all day. we are going to be fighting for freddie gray. all night, all day, we are going to be fighting for freddie gray. first of all, let me say that it s an honor and pleasure to be back here to read and not. i was here months ago to introduce two other new books that i ve written and i can iterate to be quite an honor that they ve invited me back again. for those who may not be familiar, freddie gray was the young black man who had a fatal encounter with the police in the city of baltimore. and he is in a long list of such young but people who have had fatal encounters with the authorities. i m thinking of khmer rice in cleveland and eric garner in staten islan